NPOKI Board of Directors
Sallie Craig Huber
Board Chairperson
Global Lead for Results Management
Office of the Chief Executive
Management Sciences for Health
Sallie Craig Huber has a thirty-five year career in International Public Health, with special expertise in program planning, performance management, and monitoring and evaluation. Since October 1995, she has served Management Sciences for Health in several capacities including Project Director of a major USAID centrally-funded project, Director of External Relations and Development, and Program Manager for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation with MSH’s REACH Program in Afghanistan from 2004-2006. Currently she is Deputy Director for Performance Management in MSH’s Center for Country Programs. Prior to joining MSH, Ms. Huber served as an independent consultant for more than two dozen clients. She has worked throughout Africa, Asia, and the Near East and has in-depth experience in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. She has authored several World Health Organization monographs, numerous peer-reviewed articles, and many other publications. Ms. Huber has a Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Daniel Messer
Board Vice-Chairperson
Head of Knowledge Information Systems
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Daniel Messer is responsible for directing IPPF’s information systems and initiated, co-designed and implemented the Federation’s Integrated Management System — eIMS. The latter is a web-based programme planning, reporting and management tool that successfully evolved into the organisation’s key knowledge management system. Under his supervision IPPF modernised its IT infrastructure and revised its web strategy to take full advantage of web based technologies like Intranet, Extranet and public websites. Prior to joining IPPF, he was working for East African research projects funded by the Free University of Berlin in his capacity as Sociologist.
Jim Fennessey
Board Secretary
Director of Management Information
JHPIEGO
Jim Fennessey has served as JHPIEGO’s Director of Management Information Systems for more than a decade; he has guided JHPIEGO’s information systems and services through significant growth and several major transformations in ICT paradigms, program operating models, and technologies. He is responsible for corporate information systems design and operations globally, with special emphasis on connectivity and collaboration. Jim works closely with colleagues in the Baltimore office and around the world, and always enjoys a good challenge. His responsibility areas, shared with a talented and committed team, include desktop systems and computing services design and operations, networking infrastructure and networked services, and application systems architecture. Jim’s interest in sharing ideas and approaches with peer organizations goes back even to his prior professional life … as a member of the Sociology faculty at Johns Hopkins University, working with the Baltimore schools and others carrying out process improvement research and pilot projects.
Wallace D’Souza
Board Treasurer
Senior Director of Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Wallace D’Souza is the Senior Director of Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting at IAVI. He brings 15 years of financial, technical and administrative experience in the non-profit arena. In his new role at IAVI, Wallace will be responsible for the overall coordination of the annual budget and planning cycle and for long range financial forecasting. He will also be responsible for the financial activities required to support our restricted grants and unrestricted grants portfolio. Prior to joining IAVI, Wallace managed the internal audits and financial reviews, managed contractual issues, and helped build capacity of the sub recipients of the organization in accounting procedures, systems and internal controls at MDRC (formerly Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation). He also designed and implemented budgeting software to improve project and corporate budgeting, developed and monitored internal budgets and designed a dashboard system of information for the organization.
Carolyn Boyce
Senior Evaluation Advisor
Pathfinder International
Carolyn Boyce has over twelve years of experience working in evaluation, reproductive health and development. Currently serving as Pathfinder’s Senior Evaluation Advisor, Ms. Boyce works to help design, implement and disseminate findings of project and program evaluations. She has expertise in developing tools and resources for data collection and in proposal development. In her position as Evaluation and Education Specialist at the Education Development Center, Inc., she led data collection, analysis and reporting of the Community Technology Centers Program. Ms. Boyce has demonstrated experience in evaluation of a variety of program types: youth through her work on the FOCUS on Young Adults project, the African Youth Alliance (AYA) project (Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, and Botswana), and Geração Biz (Mozambique); reproductive and maternal and child health through her work on Mozambique’s USAID and Nigeria’s Ford, MacArthur, USAID, and Packard Foundation programs; abortion and postabortion care through her work on multi-country IPPF safe abortion and youth-friendly postabortion care projects; and HIV/AIDS through her work on AYA, Tanzania’s community home based care and Mozambique’s World Bank projects.
Eric Jones
Director, Knowledge Services & Information Technology (KSIT)
Ipas
Eric Jones joined Ipas in 2003 as Manager of Information Technology, after 7 years working on projects for various Fortune 100 companies as a designer, web developer, researcher, and communications/media technology analyst. Eric’s primary area of focus at Ipas in the intervening years has been on the design and deployment of a more robust information architecture and infrastructure for the organization. Through the deployment of a global corporate WAN to Ipas offices in resource-poor areas, and a concerted focus on the deployment of intranet systems and communications technologies, Eric & his staff have worked to radically improve communication & collaboration throughout the global organization. In 2007, Eric became the Director of Information Technology & Resources, a new department that brought together Ipas’s IT and Resource Center units. In 2009, this department evolved into Knowledge Services and Information Technology, as part of a larger corporate strategy to systematically address evolving Knowledge Management issues. Today, Eric and the KSIT staff are completing the development and deployment of Ipas’s second-generation intranet system. Eric is a graduate of Duke University and the NC School of Science & Mathematics, both located in Durham, NC.
Sam McPherson
Associate Director for Field Programs and Head of the Planning Analysis and Learning (PAL) unit
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Sam McPherson is the Associate Director for Field Programs and Head of the Planning Analysis and Learning (PAL) unit at the Alliance. As head of the PAL unit Sam has responsibility for setting the strategic direction of knowledge generation across the Alliance through implementing monitoring systems, undertaking evaluations and operations research and, critically, ensuring systems are in place to transfer this knowledge to the field. As Associate Director Field Programs Sam is a member of the Senior Management Team at the Alliance and participates actively in the formulation of Alliance¹s policy and strategy. Sam takes overall leadership in facilitating the organization¹s strategic and operational planning processes for enhanced program delivery. Sam has been with the Alliance for over four years. Previous to the Alliance Sam worked at another major international NGO, PLAN, we he was responsible for the capacity support of a portfolio of 42 countries on M&E and the development and rollout of a Cooperate Monitoring Planning and Evaluation System. Prior to that Sam worked at the European Commission (DGVIII of the European Commission) in the Evaluation Unit. Sam has a MA (Geography) and an MPhil in Development Studies.
Erik Arnold
Director Global Information Systems
PATH
Erik Arnold is an information technology professional with over fourteen years experience in IT leadership, project management, and systems integration. Mr. Arnold is responsible for PATH’s global information systems – including library services, records management, software development, and the global network and computer services teams. Prior to PATH, he spent a number of years working on designing and implementing large digital asset management systems, with a robust cataloging interface and rich controlled vocabulary. He also has extensive experience with ERP implementations utilizing complex data integration platforms and reporting. He has experience with financial audits, forecasting, budgeting, contracts, HRIS, intranet design, data warehousing, and web-based dashboards. More recently, Mr. Arnold implemented program portfolio management to track relative project priorities, interdependencies, and costs – and fully implemented both Lean Agile and Scrum software development practices at a large, global e-commerce company. His approach focuses on transparency, communication, and collaboration. Mr. Arnold holds a MA from Brown University.
Melinda Pavin
Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research
EngenderHealth
Melinda Pavin recently EngenderHealth in 2008 as their Director for Monitoring, Evaluation and Research. With over fifteen years of experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches, she has experience designing M&E systems, developing data collection instruments, overseeing data collection, analyzing data, and disseminating M&E and research findings. She has worked with governmental agencies and NGOs to strengthen their own M&E systems, and to use data for decision making. In addition to working in the US, she has worked in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific regions on health, education and community development projects.
Gabriela Schwed
International Programs Manager
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, International Division
Gabriela Schwed joined PPFA in 1998. She is responsible for overseeing and coordinating programmatic support to the division’s regional offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She assists with the monitoring of project activities and technical support, and contributes to the development of the program’s strategic planning.
Gabriela has more than 20 years of experience in the sexual and reproductive health field. She has worked as a family planning advocate and counselor in Planned Parenthood clinics in Massachusetts and New York; was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic where she built the capacity of local nongovernmental organizations to design, develop and implement maternal and child health programs; and she provided sexuality education for junior and high-school students in New York City public schools. She holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Columbia University. She completed a graduate practicum in reproductive health evaluation in which she helped to develop and implement a survey that gathered information on STIs rates among a Dominican population in New York City. Gabriela speaks fluent Spanish.
Dykki Settle
Director of Health Informatics, Capacity Project
IntraHealth
After a boisterous dotcom career, Dykki Settle joined IntraHealth in 2001 as IT Director, applying his technology innovation experience to supporting a global health NGO in low resource and limited infrastructure environments around the world. In 2004, he architected a health worker information system for NGOs in Bangladesh. Building on this work, he founded the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) Strengthening team of USAID’s IntraHealth-led global Capacity Project. Over the last five years, this team has developed a the iHRIS Suite of open source human resources for health software, strengthened health worker information systems, and started building a comprehensive picture of the health workforce in nine countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, Dykki became Director of Health Informatics for the Capacity Project, where he continues to lead the HRIS Strengthening team and support IntraHealth’s global eHealth activities.
